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Emergent Layer of the Rainforest


The Emergent Layer is the highest layer in the rainforest.

This layer gets most of the sunlight and can be very windy.






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Blue Morpho Butterfly

Blue Morpho Butterfly by Kendall

Blue Morpho Butterflies are Neotropical butterflies with blue wings. They have brown borders with blue wings that have dark veins.They live in South and Central America, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Venezuela.The female butterfly is not as brilliantly colored as the male.They eat juices of rotting fruit.

P.S. (The biggest butterfly is the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing Butterfly.)



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Quetzal

Quetzal by Zaide

Quetzals live in South Central America. They eat fruit, frogs, insects, and snails. The male has tail feathers that are up to 3 feet long. The female lays eggs 1 to 2 light blue eggs. They are really colorful like green, white, red, and yellow. They are really in danger and poor flyers!


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Quetzals are a type of birds. They eat worms, fruit, frogs, and insects. Quetzals are almost extinct. They lay blue eggs. Their predators are owls and kinkajou. Quetzals live in South America.

Still More on Quetzals by Hokulua

Quetzals are birds. They live in the South and Central American rainforests. They eat worms, frogs, insects, larvae, and snails. They're cute and beautiful. I learned that these animal are solitary birds. There are four species of quetzals. They are colorful birds and they are in danger of becoming extinct.


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Bat are mammals and they hibernate in the night. Bats are the only flying mammal. They have furry bodies and they eat bugs. Some have short tails and other don't have tails. They hang upside-down at night and they don't sleep at night. They sleep in the morning everyday.